Seven Seas - April 2020 survey available!

MenyKanzaki

Manga:
Love Lab
The World God Only Knows

Light Novels:
Gamers!
Date a Live

HamsterExAstris

Do we know how Seven Seas uses the results?

I’ve decided to stop submitting stuff I’m interested in to them; their digital prices are too high (especially for manga). I’d rather Yen Press get a license despite the likely-slower translation. Just not sure if I’m better off doing nothing at all, or stuffing the box with licenses I don’t want. ;)

Rahul Balaggan

@hamsterexastris this is exactly how I feel

artistofmanga

Would be nice if other companies put out surveys like Seven seas does. But I can't think of any so I'm just going to keep filling out there surveys. I think Vertical used to have forms you could fill out but I think they stopped doing them years ago.

Terrence

@artistofmanga said in Seven Seas - February 2019 survey available!:

Would be nice if other companies put out surveys like Seven seas does. But I can't think of any so I'm just going to keep filling out there surveys. I think Vertical used to have forms you could fill out but I think they stopped doing them years ago.

Sol Press has a survey (if you don't mind the wait time potentially with their licenses...). You can submit multiple times. They ask for links to your book (Amazon sales links for LN + Manga; VNDB links for Visual Novels).

https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1058105442465771520?s=20

Bookwalker also has an area to submit licenses, and they did at one point ponder getting another LN license, but they haven't licensed any LN in too long for me to spend much time suggesting there.

https://twitter.com/BOOKWALKER_GL/status/885304342030319616?s=20

(Those links have links to the surveys).

Terabyte

Until SOL Press properly gets their act together I'm not even gonna bother making requests to them. They'll just end up locking LN licenses if they can't reliably release them. One of their new LN licenses (VRMMO Academy) which is supposedly being already translated is not even listed on their site yet.

crossfoxlurk

@hamsterexastris Well as for the way they use the Results I checked there FAQ page as that's where they said how they use it and apparently not all Series can be licensed for reasons like Creators Wishes, Past Performance etc. and I think I remember them saying this themselves when asked about submitting the same Series every month pretty much the closest we get to knowing how the results are used, as for digital prices has never really bothered me since I mostly prefer print when it comes to reading Light Novels.

Terrence

There's certain licenses I think have very slim chances of ever getting licensed (especially in certain unpopular genre). Those are the ones I'll throw Sol Press and Bookwalker's way. You can't get too upset about them locking up something that was never coming stateside to begin with.

Single volume works are decent picks to throw their way as well.

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Seven Seas - February 2019 survey available!:

Bookwalker also has an area to submit licenses, and they did at one point ponder getting another LN license, but they haven't licensed any LN in too long for me to spend much time suggesting there.

I ignore them 'cuz there are completely digital with no chance for print release....

Terrence

@bloodygaikotsu said in Seven Seas - February 2019 survey available!:

I ignore them 'cuz there are completely digital with no chance for print release....

I actually don't buy any English LN from Bookwalker (besides exclusives), but that's just because they have no Text to Speech support.

I spend on JP language volumes though, so they're still getting my moolah. T_T

If they got some license I really wanted, I'd buy it though, staring at a phone screen and blinding myself be danged! xD

kino

You can submit manga license requests to Kodansha USA if you have any, you go on their website to the bottom of the page to the Ask Bot section.

The bot will eventually link you to this:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHzCoGZ5cgofE-0d9fQ6kfC9psn-1EU4bKLngm_fSpcvl40Q/viewform

I usually just ask for things published by Kodansha in Japan or things from their subsidiary company Ichijinsha.

@artistofmanga

artistofmanga

I wonder how do most people find out if a series isn't out in english yet? I sometimes check mangaupdates publisher list. But clicking on each series list one at a time can get a bit tiring. I wonder if there is an easier way?

myskaros

@artistofmanga Honestly, I just keep track of the industry closely enough that I generally "know" what's been published and what hasn't. If it's a series I'm not sure on, then I check wikipedia.

kino

@artistofmanga Myanimelist often times has snippets of background info on their manga database entries and it will usually say if a manga is licensed in English and by who. Lately myanimelist has been lagging behind on stuff like that since the company was bought by the Japanese manga digital distributor Media Do so I guess taking care of the database must have been extra chaotic.

Ryu Heishin

Light novels:
Slayers
Grimoire of Zero

Manga:
Ushio & Tora
Moonlight Act

Aruseus493

I went with my regular:

Manga:

Gate: Where the JSDF Fought! - A rescue request since Sekai Project has fucked over the English license by never publishing more than one volume.
Angel Beats!: Heaven's Door - They licensed this one before, but only released one volume. So I always harass them about it cause I love Angel Beats.

myskaros

Finally did my survey.

Manga
- Darwin's Game
- Oroka na Tenshi wa Akuma to Odoru
Light Novel
- Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter
- Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu

Changed Hatsukoi Zombie to the angel/demon one since it's hilarious, shorter (only 5 volumes as opposed to like 20), and the later chapters of HZ have been quite a departure from what the beginning of the series is. I still enjoy reading it, but I'm apprehensive of how it'll end, so don't want to keep pushing it then end up not wanting to buy it :<

Raitoiro

@artistofmanga @DoubleMangekyo seem to like making list:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1703/english-licenses-sorted-by-jp-publisher?page=1

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1070/light-novel-counter-july-2018

i don't know if every serie is list, but it seem like most are.

Terrence

Seven Seas revealed some demographics info and answered a handful of questions regarding their survey.

https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/1101237877000888326?s=20

There's a bunch of info there, but one small piece.

Of those surveyed:
68.2% read yuri
77% buy light novels

HamsterExAstris

I'd be interested to see how that 68.2% is broken down by gender...